Famous findLate 1st century BC or early 1st century AD · found 1834
Ferlini's Meroë Treasure: the gold a treasure hunter found by wrecking a pyramid
In 1834 the Italian treasure hunter Giuseppe Ferlini had the top of a royal pyramid at Meroë in Sudan torn down, and claimed to have found a hoard of a Kushite queen's gold jewellery inside. Experts at first called it a fake; it is now in Berlin and Munich.